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Michael: Welcome back to the Reckoning Press Podcast! It’s me, Michael J. DeLuca, your once-and-future host, taking over for audio editor emeritus Aaron Kling, who as one of his last contributions to Reckoning produced and narrated this episode’s story, “New Niches” by Jackie Roberti.
“New Niches” was a favorite from Reckoning 9, and it made the shortlist for ECO25, the Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction anthology edited by Marissa Van Uden. It’s a story about seeking solitude, seeking reprieve from the horrors, and finding something more—not just reprieve, but relief. It’s about the complexity and contradictory nature of climate “solutions”—in this case, offshore wind. Maybe it’s a story about “touching grass”? I can’t say I completely understand that expression, but I’m trying to. I think it’s about letting nature restore you to yourself, something we all desperately need.
Here’s hoping this quiet, contemplative story does a little of that for you.
